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- It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
- Henry Peter Brougham
- Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
- Thomas J. Watson
- Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels; first to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ in worth contending about.
- C. C. Colton
- Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
- William A. Foster
- A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
- South
- Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish.
- Salter
- Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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